A teacher is never a giver of truth. He is a guide, a pointer to the truth that every student must find for himself – Bruce Lee
Welcome to the most comprehensive wealth academy you will ever encounter in your lifetime and a brief discussion behind the inspiration behind its creation. Tomii Academy was a massive labor of love, founded by its creator, J. Kim, in response to the degenerative state of modern academia that no longer produces creative, intelligent thinkers and in response to a society that no longer teaches honor, integrity, discipline and accountability, and consequently promotes immoral ideas of “success” to people of all ages today. Tomii Academy is the culmination of a fifteen year painstaking journey of sweat equity that involved many sleepless nights and consists of 20 courses, 190 lessons, 65 real world exercise, 4,000+ pages of coursework and more than 150 hours of audio files. We’ve all heard the mantra that knowledge is power, but this saying is not entirely accurate. The Hagakure, an ancient text written in the early 1700s in Japan about the way of the warrior, states, “Having wisdom and talent is the lowest tier of usefulness.” Though many people may be confused by this statement, it merely means that wisdom and talent without direction and purpose is useless, much like knowledge without application is useless. Institutional academia today imparts much knowledge of low utility and this is the reason many, in 2024, have foregone the excessive $234,000 cost of a Harvard MBA (a cost that would be even higher without the assumption of a “moderate student lifestyle”) and other bloated MBA tuition fees for better educational pathways of far greater utility and applied knowledge.
At Tomii Academy, my goal is to change how you think, no matter if you are 10 years-old or 90-years young! If you have ever spent considerable time in academic classrooms and on social media platforms, then in all likelihood, your brain is in need of serious rewiring to (1) reconnect essential neuronal pathways that have been destroyed; and to (2) disconnect other established pathways that create uncritical acceptance of information and blind obedience to authority that narrows our possibilities in
life and causes us to live our lives inside a neat little box that leaves our enormous potential untapped. Today’s “modern” educational institutions, even the most prestigious universities in the world, remain deeply rooted in behavioral conditioning and boring, repetitive rote memorization tasks that kill individual creativity and critical thought. Consequently, we have been conditioned in classrooms to think robotically and convergently, instead of intellectually, creatively and divergently. In life, being able to think critically and divergently is paramount to success, regardless of our goals. It may even be critical in making the right decisions during emergencies that will determine whether you live or die as well. By the time we graduate from high school, the academic system has stripped most of us of our creativity and our critical thinking skills, a process that is expedited with social media use and furthered with the length of time we spend inside the traditional academic system.
Unfortunately, we apply this close-minded way of thinking to our careers, and more tragically, to all aspects of our lives. In fact, this process occurs in such an insidious manner that most of us are oblivious to this end result. Because of my desire to reverse this insidious process of the institutional academic system, I created a completely different platform of learning and education called Tomii Academy. I rooted each of the 20 courses in my Academy in nine essential educational pillars that will disrupt academics from its highly diluted and low utility platform and return it to a true educational platform that will improve our life purpose, sense of well-being, levels of happiness, and critical thinking skills. I re-named the blog at which I’ve published free articles for nearly two decades, malamalama.com/ wordpress. Maalamalama is a Hawaiian word for brilliance, enlightenment and clarity of perception. Due to the lack of true education and critical thinking development in most academic classrooms around the world today, we have unfortunately entered an intellectual dark age that I intend to reverse with the launch of my Academy.
The roots of true education have been completely stripped from most academic institutions today, a facet of academia that has led to the production of young, behaviorally conditioned adults that share more in common with obedient Pavlovian dogs than free-thinking human beings. Sadly, even during global lockdowns that lasted three years from 2020 to the end of 2022, the majority of adults all around the world subjugated themselves with little resistance to non-scientific mandates handed down by authoritarian oligarchs that falsely fed us nonsense they labeled “science” under the guise that no one would challenge their misguided and deliberately deceitful authority to discover their lies. Unfortunately, due to the fact that “educators” have stripped critical thinking skill development out of the curriculum of almost every university and college in the world, even among universities perceived to be the most prestigious in the world like the University of Tokyo, Cambridge, and Harvard, institutional academia graduated and continues to graduate young adults that are blindly compliant to lies, even blatantly self-evident ones. Most likely, top scientists around the world are appalled by the near uniform appeasement of the masses to suspect authoritarian mandates that strip the entire realm of science of a central immutable principle in the journey towards scientific revelation and truth – the relentless questioning of all scientific musings that lack indisputable proof and evidence.
The political and economic Ruling Class’s forwarded notion that their interpretation of science can never be challenged and is the only right one, and that all that dare challenge them ought to be censored, silenced, and even imprisoned, is a truly appalling insult to anyone that values freedom today and serves as damning commentary about the run-down state of academics and education. Despite a mountain of evidence that proved scientists and politicians (appointed to the top of national health agencies) were comically wrong about the “science” they spouted to justify their lockdowns from 2020 to 2022, only a handful of scientists around the world pushed back against their nonsense in support of the truth, and in the process, sometimes lost their Board licenses to practice or their employment at universities. And the choice of hundreds of thousands of physicians during this time to remain silent, in fear of the damage that speaking truth would inflict upon their careers, revealed a much worse global epidemic than that of complete obedience to immoral authority – the epidemic of cowardice. The rise of cowardice, the feminization of men, and the purposeful gravitation of billions around the world to the seven deadly sins of gluttony, lust, envy, pride, greed, wrath, and sloth over discipline, virtue, morality, work ethic and honor, and the need to reverse this trend as firmly as possible in 2024, served as the inspiration for my creation of Tomii Academy.